Sir Winston Churchill did not invent the prefab, but on 26 March 1944 he made an important broadcast promising to manufacture half a million of them to ease the new housing emergency caused by enemy bombs and the continued growth of inner-city slums.
He went on to claim that these easy-to-assemble, factory-made bungalows would be ‘far superior to the ordinary cottage’.
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